expert reaction to study looking at the global distribution of cropland contaminated by heavy metal pollution

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expert reaction to study looking at the global distribution of cropland contaminated by heavy metal pollution

A study published in Science looks at global soil contamination by toxic metals.    Dr Lucie Buchi, Senior Lecturer in Crop Ecology at the NRI, University of Greenwich, said: “While the results of the study seem alarming, the 10×10 scale of the grid cells that the study was based on does not allow any practical application at a local scale. The authors make note of this in the paper: ‘The present study is based on average metal concentrations on…